Oops!! Its tax time again

How will you prepare your information for preparing your tax returns this year? Will you trawl through all the paper and electronic files to find the information you need and sort it as you go? Or will you grab everything you can see that might be relevant and drop it into a box and take…

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You mean you don’t have to keep your paper records forever?

No you don’t – but you do need to keep some records for certain periods of time – by law. It can be a bit daunting as you see the piles of paper building up and wonder where you’re going to store it all year after year.  I know one business where the records are…

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Feral paper in your office

Has paper gone feral in your office? You know what I mean, piles of papers on your desk, more on the floor, paper everywhere in fact. It used to be organised and filed once, but then you got busy. Now you’ve forgotten how you used to organise your paper files and you’ve started storing some…

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The need for structure in your business

I’ve been on holiday in the South island of New Zealand for the past 2 weeks.  That’s why this blog has been silent for a while. I took two cousins from England for a tour of the West Coast, southern lakes and Fiordland.  We spent a lot of time in rain forest and it rekindled…

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What does gardening have in common with filing?

Last weekend I was in the garden cleaning up around the rengarenga lilies that had been home to snails for some time. (If you don’t know these plants, they form low bushes of long fleshy leaves and a myriad of white flowers in spring and summer). As I pulled off shredded leaves that the snails…

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